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1821 Decr. 7

Codification Proposal

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Appendix

Monarch and Aristocracy

Relation

Relation between the /Monarch's/ interest of the Monarchy and the interest of the Aristocracy in its several branches. Interests how far coincident, how far conflicting © how far and how reconcileable and reconciled.

I In respect of money. It is the interest of the Monarch as above that the quantity of money in his hands and at his disposal of the matter of subsistence and abundance extracted /extorted/ from those by whom it has been produced and from those into whose hands with their free consent it has passed should be as great as possible

So is it the interest of the aristocracy in the aggregate, with the exception of such part of it as is extracted from them and thus at their expence

II. As to power. It is the interest of the Monarch as above that the quantity of power in his hands and at his disposal be as great as possible.

So is it the interest of the Aristocracy in the aggregate with the exception of /power in/ any such power /shape/ by /from/ which any sensible defalcation may be made from their own security: in particular from their own security as against misdeeds committed to their prejudice by the Monarch or any instrument of his.

III. As to factitious dignity. 1. It is the interest of the Monarch as above, that the quantity of it be as great as possible: in a Monarchy the whole stock of it being in one way or other his: either condensed in his own person, or at his disposal

It is the interest of the Aristocracy taken in the aggregate that the quantity of it be as great as possible: since the greater the aggregate mass the greater in possession or in contingency will be each members share.

On the other hand it is the interest of each member taken separately not only that upon a level higher than his own, but upon the same level with his own a quantity of this aliment to pride and vanity be as small as possible: since by every addition to the number of those who are sharers with him the value of his own share is lessened.